Post #762860 by komohana on Sat, Apr 23, 2016 6:43 PM

On 2016-04-23 18:07, Club Nouméa wrote:
Yes, Komohana, the first known tiki mug came from New Zealand - see the following thread:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=44394&forum=5&start=15&hilite=Crown%20Lynn

If you look further down that thread, you will also see that the earliest known tiki teacup and saucer also came from New Zealand (via Germany circa 1939).

These discoveries ruffled a few Californian feathers at the time, but so far no one has uncovered an American tiki mug (or teacup) that predates these.

And it does beg the question: where did Americans get the idea of tiki mugs from?

I read that thread at the time, and clearly remember the responses bigbrotiki proffered.

What EXACTLY do you hope to gain? Even if you do somehow convince everyone that Tiki mugs were invented in New Zealand - so what?

Your posts are usually pert cool, the travel threads in particular, but there is a common whiff of "agenda" rising from many of them - what is that?